ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,423, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Aktiebolaget SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"System for monitoring a wheel-rail contact force" was invented by Victor Martinez (Madrid) and Elena Pinto (Alcorcon-Madrid, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring a wheel-rail contact force, the system providing a measuring unit for measuring a vertical acceleration of a wheel being connected to a bogie. The wheel is configured to run on a rail. The system includes a calculation unit for simulating a wheel-rail interaction using the measured vertical acceleration and for calculating a wheel-rail contact force based on the simulated ...